From: Thomas Lindroth <thomas.lindroth@gmail.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Early OOM and kernel NULL pointer dereference in 4.19.69
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 21:34:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a07da432-1fc1-67de-ae35-93f157bf9a7d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190902071617.GC14028@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On 9/2/19 9:16 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sun 01-09-19 22:43:05, Thomas Lindroth wrote:
>> After upgrading to the 4.19 series I've started getting problems with
>> early OOM.
>
> What is the kenrel you have updated from? Would it be possible to try
> the current Linus' tree?
I did some more testing and it turns out this is not a regression after all.
I followed up on my hunch and monitored memory.kmem.max_usage_in_bytes while
running cgexec -g memory:12G bash -c 'find / -xdev -type f -print0 | \
xargs -0 -n 1 -P 8 stat > /dev/null'
Just as memory.kmem.max_usage_in_bytes = memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes the OOM
killer kicked in and killed my X server.
Using the find|stat approach it was easy to test the problem in a testing VM.
I was able to reproduce the problem in all these kernels:
4.9.0
4.14.0
4.14.115
4.19.0
5.2.11
5.3-rc6 didn't build in the VM. The build environment is too old probably.
I was curious why I initially couldn't reproduce the problem in 4.14 by
building chromium. I was again able to successfully build chromium using
4.14.115. Turns out memory.kmem.max_usage_in_bytes was 1015689216 after
building and my limit is set to 1073741824. I guess some unrelated change in
memory management raised that slightly for 4.19 triggering the problem.
If you want to reproduce for yourself here are the steps:
1. build any kernel above 4.9 using something like my .config
2. setup a v1 memory cgroup with memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes lower than
memory.limit_in_bytes. I used 100M in my testing VM.
3. Run "find / -xdev -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 -P 8 stat > /dev/null"
in the cgroup.
4. Assuming there is enough inodes on the rootfs the global OOM killer
should kick in when memory.kmem.max_usage_in_bytes =
memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes and kill something outside the cgroup.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-02 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-01 20:43 [BUG] Early OOM and kernel NULL pointer dereference in 4.19.69 Thomas Lindroth
2019-09-02 7:16 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-02 7:27 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-02 19:34 ` Thomas Lindroth [this message]
2019-09-03 7:41 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-03 12:01 ` Thomas Lindroth
2019-09-03 12:05 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2019-09-03 12:22 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-03 18:20 ` Thomas Lindroth
2019-09-03 19:36 ` Michal Hocko
[not found] ` <666dbcde-1b8a-9e2d-7d1f-48a117c78ae1@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
2019-09-03 18:25 ` Thomas Lindroth
[not found] ` <4d0eda9a-319d-1a7d-1eed-71da90902367@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
2019-09-04 11:25 ` [BUG] kmemcg limit defeats __GFP_NOFAIL allocation Michal Hocko
[not found] ` <4d87d770-c110-224f-6c0c-d6fada90417d@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
2019-09-04 11:59 ` Michal Hocko
[not found] ` <0056063b-46ff-0ebd-ff0d-c96a1f9ae6b1@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
2019-09-04 14:29 ` Michal Hocko
[not found] ` <405ce28b-c0b4-780c-c883-42d741ec60e0@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
2019-09-05 23:11 ` Thomas Lindroth
2019-09-06 7:27 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-06 10:54 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2019-09-06 11:29 ` Michal Hocko
[not found] ` <20190906125608.32129-1-mhocko@kernel.org>
2019-09-06 18:24 ` [PATCH] memcg, kmem: do not fail __GFP_NOFAIL charges Shakeel Butt
2019-09-09 11:22 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-11 12:00 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-11 14:37 ` Andrew Morton
2019-09-11 15:16 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-13 2:46 ` Shakeel Butt
2019-09-24 10:53 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-24 23:06 ` Andrew Morton
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